{"title":"Ramanujan’s taxicab number and its ilk","authors":"Samuel S. Wagstaff","doi":"10.1007/s11139-024-00846-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We discuss properties of the Hardy-Ramanujan taxicab number, 1729, and similar numbers. The similar numbers include Carmichael numbers, Lucas Carmichael numbers, sums of cubes, and integers of the form <span>\\(b^n\\pm 1\\)</span>.</p>","PeriodicalId":501430,"journal":{"name":"The Ramanujan Journal","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Ramanujan Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-024-00846-1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We discuss properties of the Hardy-Ramanujan taxicab number, 1729, and similar numbers. The similar numbers include Carmichael numbers, Lucas Carmichael numbers, sums of cubes, and integers of the form \(b^n\pm 1\).